Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members

'Grandpa stopped speaking the day he killed my brother, John.

"e;We're triplets.

Joey Pigza is back in his fifth hilarious adventure, with illustrations by David Tazzyman.

Memories of Mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy.

Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered.

After Shell's mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left to care for her younger brother and sister.

Bella is going to have a very busy day at nursery - but what about baby brother Bob?

Tom and Jo are the perfect professional couple, and think they have it all.

Edward is four years old when he is locked away with his mother by her abusive, alcoholic partner, Harris.

Everything changes for Joey when his crazy, long-lost dad returns home after a lucky lottery win.

'I know a place you can go'.

Patrick Pennington is out of control, and seems to be heading for disaster.

'I would rather be with my grandfather on the Alp than anywhere on earth!

I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one Without her beloved father and miles from home, it is very hard for Sara Crewe to like her new life at boarding school.

'As they sat together in the twilight, talking over their small plans, the future always grew so beautiful and bright'Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy have grown up together in Orchard House with their friend Laurie next door, and now it's time for them to go out and find their places in the big wide world, to do the great and marvellous things they've dreamed of and discover their 'castles in the air'.

'I mean to do something grand.

Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere.

A powerful short story featuring Sephy and Callum, stars of the original dystopian bestseller, Noughts and Crosses.

'Has the power to move hearts and change minds' Guardian'Tremendously uplifting and a novel of all-too-rare power' Sunday Express'An amazing book .

Join Eppie and Zeke as they get sucked down the plughole and into a brand-new adventure.

What if the only thing you had left were the stories in your head?

Because of the potato me and my family left our home and travelled 6,000 miles to find a new life .

DOPED UP AND LOCKED UP - OR FREE?

Mum knew she shouldn't have left the children alone.

Sunita starts at her new school determined to hide her horrible secret.

Alice-Miranda is in bustling New York City.

Amber, Jazz and Geena have finally secured their auntie's engagement to the gorgeous Mr Arora, but now it's time for a little romance of their own.

This is a contemporary tale about two friends - one of whom, Asra, is an asylum seeker from an unnamed Eastern European country.

I'm falling - falling down steep, narrow stairs - if I hit the bottom asleep, I know I'll never wake.

Joe and Claire can see why Mum chucked Dad out.

This is the heart-warming tale of a seven-year-old Froggy, who strives to care for his younger brother, Benny, after the death of their parents.

Meet a cat who is the king of his house, until something terrible happens!

My Grandpa is the stunning picture book debut from Marta Altes, author of I Am An Artist.

Fudge-a-Mania is the fourth book in the wonderfully hilarious Fudge series from the iconic Judy Blume.

Superfudge is the third book in the hilarious, outrageous Fudge series from the iconic Judy Blume.

Double Fudge is the fifth and final book in the outrageous, hilarious Fudge series from the iconic Judy Blume.

Just as Long as We're Together is Judy Blume's classic novel about changing friendships.

From the author of Are You There God?

Starring Sally J.

From Judy Blume, author of Are You There God?

'We're going to a fine place,' Idie told Homer to console him, 'with gullies and monkeys and hummingbirds.

Aisha is a thirteen-year-old refugee living in London.

Funny, cheeky and crammed full of brilliant illustrations, Jelly Breaks the Mould is the third book in the brilliant Turning to Jelly series by author and illustrator Candy Guard.

Sam and Freddie, both fostered with the same family, are best friends.

'I'LL FLY,' JENNA WHISPERED TO HERSELF.

MANNY WANTS TO BE A FOOTBALLER.

A powerful and gripping novel that sweeps the reader from modern-day Britain to the Punjab in the 1960s and back again in a ceaseless cycle of tragedy and conflict.

Moving to a new area and a new school, Louis is horrified to discover his parents changing into ultra-competitive parents, wanting him and his younger brother to get straight As at school and join all sorts of after-school clubs and activities like the other kids in the area.

There's nothing unusual or different about the Brocket family - and they're keen to keep it that way.

There were three people, standing in the darkest place, watching him.